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(6) SUMMARY OF TELEGRAM FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN, DATED 30th AUGUST, 1939. (6) We shall give careful consideration to the German Government's reply, but it is of course unreasonable to expect that we can produce a Polish representative in Berlin to-day, and the German Government must not expect this. It might be well for you at once to let this be known in the proper quarters through appropriate channels. We hope you may receive our reply this afternoon.

(7) MESSAGE FROM MR. CHAMBERLAIN TO HERR HITLER SENT THROUGH HIS MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN AT 2.45 P.M., 30th AUGUST, 1939. We are considering the German Note with all urgency and shall send an official reply later in the afternoon. We are representing at Warsaw how vital it is to reinforce all instructions for the avoiding of frontier incidents, and I would beg you to confirm similar instructions on the German side. I welcome the evidence in the exchanges of views, which are taking place, of the desire for the Anglo-German understanding of which I spoke yesterday in Parliament.

(8) TELEGRAM FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN, SENT AT 5.30 P.M., 30th AUGUST, 1939. In informing the German Government of the renewed representations which have been made in Warsaw, please make it clear that the Polish Government can only be expected to maintain an attitude of complete restraint if the German Government reciprocate on their side of the frontier, and if no provocation is offered by members of the German minority in Poland. Reports are current that Germans have committed acts of sabotage which would justify the sternest measures.

(9) TELEGRAM FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN, SENT AT 6,50 P.M., 30th AUGUST, 1939, We understand that the German Government are insisting that a Polish representative with full powers must come to Berlin to receive the German proposals. We cannot advise the Polish Government to comply with this procedure, which is wholly unreasonable. Could you not suggest to the German Government that they adopt the normal procedure, when their proposals are ready, of inviting the Polish Ambassador to call, and handing the proposals to him for transmission to Warsaw and inviting suggestions as to the conduct of the negotiations. The German Government have been good enough to promise that they will communicate the proposals also to His Majesty's Government. If the latter think they offer a reasonable basis they can be counted on to do their best in Warsaw to facilitate negotiations.

(10) REPLY FROM HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO HERR HITLER'S NOTE OF 29th AUGUST, DATED 30th AUGUST, 1939. 1. His Majesty's Government appreciate the friendly reference in tlie declaration contained in the reply of the German Government to the latter's desire for an Anglo-German understanding and to their statement of the influence which this consideration has exercised upon their policy.

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